An official who presides over and judges legal cases heard at a local level
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Organisation of monks, nuns and friars who take vows of poverty, chastity and obedience to a superior within the Church and who live in communities together as religious brothers or sisters
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According to Church law, it was forbidden to marry relations and legal treatises set out in great detail exactly which relationships were forbidden
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Law laid down by the pope and the Roman Catholic Church
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A legal document issued by the pope that gives an exemption from a particular aspect of canon law
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To exclude someone from participation in the sacraments of the Roman Catholic Church
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Type of punishment which excludes a certain individual/group from particular rites of the Church